Forum moderation policy idea: No overly combative debating

[NotYouAgain]

On Friday, 3 May 2024 at 20:46:54 UTC, aberba wrote:
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> I've come to trust Mike too. He's doing a great job already. 
> Happy to have things be the way it is.

The problem is, nobody know what exactly it is, that he his 
deleting, or why.

I've not in favor of moderators not being accountable.

For example, there is a thread in DIP Ideas that wants to do: "I 
want to propose that we provide a mechanism to semantically 
detach unit tests from the scope they are written in. Such 
unittests would be treated as if they were not in the same scope 
or module".

I proposed putting the unittest in a separate module, as that 
would ensure it was out of the scope and semantically detached. I 
pointed out also,  that was the same response that people gave me 
when i asked for the same thing (i.e. the issue I have with 
unittests outside the scope of a class, but within the same 
module, still behaving as if it were in the scope of the class.).

There was nothing rude or insulting in my comment. It got 
deleted. And the justification was ?? .. Mike just didn't like it.

If you could see my post, you would see how benign it was.. but 
you can't see it, so you don't even know it existed, or why it 
was deleted.

I'm sure Mike will want to jump in here and show the contents of 
my response, as he also explains why he deleted it.